Details
Description
When runing the timelineperformance test from MapredTestDriver without input parameter, an NPE was throwed:
./hadoop org.apache.hadoop.test.MapredTestDriver timelineperformance
...
2017-06-08 09:32:13,194 ERROR mapreduce.SimpleEntityWriterV1: writing to the timeline service failed
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.api.impl.TimelineClientImpl.putEntities(TimelineClientImpl.java:178)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.SimpleEntityWriterV1.map(SimpleEntityWriterV1.java:82)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.SimpleEntityWriterV1.map(SimpleEntityWriterV1.java:41)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:146)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:793)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:341)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job$MapTaskRunnable.run(LocalJobRunner.java:271)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
That's better to add a protection of NULL pointer check.